From inside the kindergarten room, these snowpeople display character! From the parking lot, they are mere outlines of their showy selves. A young reader today needed guidance to see those two perspectives from inside and outside a flower shop. She brought Joyce Kessler's book Valentine's Day to me and asked me what the words said in Karen Ritz's illustration above the blooms and greenery and people. I brought her to the library work room where a mirror hangs over the sink. "Hold up your book," I told her. Immediately she exclaimed, "Flower Shop!" We looked a few times at the magically transformed letters and enjoyed a backwards lesson.
Good for you, that you showed her instead of told her!
ReplyDeleteI love how those snowmen look like they are dancing in the outside snow!
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